From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:41:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/16] diff: use tempfile module
Message-ID: <xmqqy4hglar6.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <55CB62B7.8060706@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> No, prepare_temp_file() sometimes sets diff_tempfile::name to
> "/dev/null", and sometimes to point at its argument `name`.

That explains everything.  Thanks.  It's been a while since I wrote
this part of the system ;-).